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Title: Tunisian New Entrepreneurs and their Past Experiences of Migration in Europe: The formation of network mechanisms Author(s): CASSARINO, Jean-Pierre Date: 1998 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This text concentrates on the economic sociology of return migration, with specific reference to Tunisia. As such, it aims to analyze, on the one hand, the patterns of resource mobilization and the strategies for survival ...

Title: Understanding Collective Security in the 21st Century: A critical study of UN peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia Author(s): JOENSSON, Jibecke H. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis is motivated by the puzzle that while the practice of collective security continues to grow and expand with more and bigger peacekeeping operations, the system is struggling increasingly to address the threats ...

Title: Understanding policy adjustment in southern Europe : political exchange and wage bargaining reform in Italy and Spain Author(s): MOLINA ROMO, Oscar Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Unions in Hard Times. Labour Market Politics in Western Europe: Two Patterns of Reform Author(s): DAVIDSSON, Johan Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: How can we understand labour market reforms in the era that has been described as governed by retrenchment and austerity? This thesis proposes that the patterns of reform that can be seen in Europe can be explained by the ...

Title: Unnecessary suffering : a study in applied ethics Author(s): GLASMAN, Maurice Date: 1995 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: The Uses of Legitimacy: Models of EU Legitimacy Assessed in Light of the European Parliament’s Debates on BSE and the Constitutional Treaty Author(s): ZEINER, Hilde Hatleskog Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis examines the uses of legitimacy in debates on European integration. It treats the issue at a normative and empirical level. The normative part is an analysis of four theoretical contributions to the discourse ...

Title: Using Historical Experience: The British Army and the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan Author(s): SANGAR, Eric Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This PhD explores some of the ways in which the British and German Armies have used historical experience in their process of operational adaptation in Afghanistan. Historical experience is conceptualized as a body of ...

Title: Utopia In Social Movements: A cross-national comparison of the political consumerist movement in France and the United Kingdom Author(s): BOSSY, Sophie Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This research investigates an often forgotten aspect of collective action, its imaginary dimension, by focusing on an overlooked concept: utopia. According to me, utopia is both a form of discourse and a set of particular ...

Title: Varieties within capitalism?: the modernization of French and Italian saving banks, 1980-2000 y Olivier Butzbach Author(s): BUTZBACH, Olivier Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: A Veto Players' Games? Comparing and explaining domestic coordination regarding the European Union in Germany and Denmark Author(s): DAGNIS JENSEN, Mads Christian Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: What are the key determinants behind how member states develop positions for the negotiations in the Council of the European Union? This is the major question that this thesis seeks to answer. In order to develop negotiation ...

Title: Voting Smarter? The impact of voting advice applications on political behavior Author(s): VASSIL, Kristjan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) proliferate across Europe and beyond. By matching the political offer with voters’ preferences, these internet applications assist voters in their decisions. However, despite the growing ...

Title: War : the constitution of the totalitarian body Author(s): MUSABEGOVIC, Senadin Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: War by Images: From Kosovo to Afghanistan Author(s): DE FRANCO, Chiara Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: In the most classical way and a less than original strategy in International Relations, this research is about power, the sources of power, and power relations. However, the unit of analysis is all but classical; on the ...

Title: Waving the European flag in a Southern European welfare state: Factors behind domestic compliance with European social policy in Portugal Author(s): ADÃO E SILVA, Pedro Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis aims to analyse how three different instruments of European social policy with different convergence capacity have been implemented in one member state (Portugal) and try to understand the factors that explain ...

Title: We are the peace process : Oslo implementation and Israeli-Palestinian joint committees from 1994 to 2001 Author(s): SANTORO, Simona Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: 'We, the People' vs. 'We, the Peoples': The debate over the nature of the union in the USA and Canada and its lessons for European integration Author(s): MANN, Dennis-Jonathan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Dennis-Jonathan Mann’s thesis contributes to a growing body of literature that uses the framework of comparative federalism to “make sense” of the European Union. On an empirical level, the thesis contrasts the EU discourse ...

Title: Welfare state e decentramento in Italia: Le politiche socio-assistenziali negli anni settanta Author(s): FARGION, Valeria Date: 1986 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: The Welfare State we're in: Organisations of the unemployed in action in Paris and Berlin Author(s): ZORN, Annika Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The following thesis looks at the contentious action of the unemployed in Paris and Berlin. The thesis investigates the role of local organisations of the unemployed in contentious activities. More specifically, it looks ...

Title: Welfare state, labour force and families : a comparative and historical study of Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden Author(s): GRATTAN, Sarah Date: 2003 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Western Europe and the breakup of Yugoslavia : a political failure in search of a scholarly explanation Author(s): LUCARELLI, Sonia Date: 1998 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: On June 26, 1991, after some 46 years without a war in Europe, violent conflict erupted in the territory of what used to be the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It took more than four years of atrocities before a ...

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